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Migration experience, aspirations and the brain drain theory and empirical evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - 2014
education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a …
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Migration, education and work opportunities
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2017
I study individual location, education and work decisions in a dynamic life-cycle model in a developing country. I … emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with … education, while migrants at the extremes of the education distribution tend to move abroad. Local unemployment rates, skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732078
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Spatial Wage Gaps and Frictional Labor Markets
Heise, Sebastian - 2019
We develop a job-ladder model with labor reallocation across firms and space, which we design to leverage matched employer-employee data to study differences in wages and labor productivity across regions. We apply our framework to data from Germany: twenty-five years after the reunification,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861479
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Labor Market Choices of Migrants and Redistributive Policies
Mitterbacher, Kerstin; Palan, Stefan; Fleiß, Jürgen - 2021
We experimentally study economic migrants’ willingness to take up work and integrate into society, and, in turn, destination country citizens’ willingness to allow economic migrants to pursue formal work and integrate into society and its social security and welfare system. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215625
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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013
We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774820
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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013
We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775564
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Modelling the flow of knowledge and human capital : a framework of innovative capital
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel - 2011
Recently, the EU Council adopted a new labour migration policy instrument - the EU Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting the highly skilled workers to the EU. The present paper examines the potential impacts, which BC may cause on less developed sending countries (LDC). Our results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524909
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International migration and "educated unemployment"
Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2006
This paper provides a novel explanation of “educated unemployment,” which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that “educated unemployment” is caused by the perspective of international migration, that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737403
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A reluctance to assimilate
Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2006
Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737408
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Ability drain
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2015
. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …' (migrants') average ability and has an ambiguous (positive) impact on their average education and skill, with a net skill drain …) consumption falls with ability's inequality; viii) contrary to the situation with education and skill, consumption inequality is …
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